To Unidentified
January 1879 • Munich, Germany
(Sales catalog: Goodspeed’s, unknown date,
no. 250, item 99, UCCL 10341)

99. CLEMENS, (Samuel L.). Autograph letter signed, 6 pages, Munich, 1879.

$25.00

A long, newsy letter, written while he was working on A Tramp Abroad (published Hartford, 1880), mentions the book—“I have no leisure whatever for study—a big octavo requires a long pull and an almighty steady one”—longs for the New England weather—“I ache for a good honest all day, all night snowstorm, with a wind-up gale of 150 miles an hour and 35 degrees below zero. That is the only kind of weather that is fit and right for January.”